The Department of Education used to be responsible for enforcing accessibility requirements for US schools, as to ensure disabled students could attend school. Now it has more or less stopped doing this.
The wrecker wants to eliminate the Department of Education, so we must expect the US government will abandon the goal as well as the means.
I made the above link to an article because it tells us something important about racism. Racism is an intense form of bigotry; it is a collective injustice that I condemn, and support the campaign against. I think posting a link to that article will help that campaign.
Ironically, that article itself embodies symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid this bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce lesser forms of bigotry too, and I don't want to normalize symbolic bigotry by letting it pass without calling it out. Normally I avoid any mention of articles that practice it.
I had conflicting feelings about that article based on these two valid goals: to make a link, because of its important point about racism, or not to link, to avoid normalizing the article's own bigotry. I concluded that the first goal could not be neglected, and made the link. But the second goal also should not be neglected -- hence this note to criticize the article's own bigotry.
*In slashing staff and disabling entire agencies the administration is lacerating the structures of US democracy.*
Facebook says that blocking posts about Linux or "Linux" was an unintentional error.
The right-wing-controlled Pentagon is imposing right-wing censorship on the libraries of the schools for military personnel.
The wrecker's agents fired some of the workers that maintain security for US nuclear weapons. Then it realized that this was stupid, but it can't figure out how to reach them to offer them their jobs back.
If you do things without careful thought, you are likely to make mistakes. I am sure the wrecker's destruction workers have made many mistakes in its haste. But usually they don't care, and say nothing.
What is newsworthy this time is that they care enough to try to undo it.
The US government plans to scan the internet for postings that express hostility to the deportation thugs, then search high and low for all information it can get about the person who posted them.
We cannot at this point expect that this search will confine itself to legal methods.
Alan Singer describes the history over time of his relationship with Israel, developing from intense support to moral reproach.
Rejecting the superstition that if we refuse to call it "fascism" that will somehow restrain the regime from going all the way there.
*By voting in favor of nominees they knew should never be approved, Republican senators became [the corrupter's] subjects.*
Vance distorted edge-cases of European laws to attack crucial human rights, and to promote his allies in Europe — European far-right extremists-Nazis — and encourage them to seize repressive power there as the Trusk regime is doing in the US.
European anti-Nazis need to be bold, not hesitate and rely on measures that aim only to oppose them.
Since the US appreciates Putin more than Europe, and is as likely to behave like Europe's enemy than like Europe's friend, Europe urgently needs to re-arm.
The lesson from this is that European governments must ensure their weapons production does not depend significantly on US industry. They could be cut off by sanctions at any time. Europe must cease buying US weapons systems that depend on US spare parts, US maintenance, or software that Europe cannot maintain and change.
NATO no longer makes sense with the US as a member, so perhaps the other members of NATO should construct a new alliance without the US. That could be a framework to facilitate joint defense of Greenland, for instance. With luck, that would deter the wrecker from actually invading Greenland.
Defaming the Italian government, parliament, courts, or army carries a fine of up to €5,000 (or $5,240) and a direct summons to trial. There is typically a possibility of three years in prison, but Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said it's highly unlikely Molko will receive a sentence. [...]
While campaigning for election as Italy's first female prime minister in October 2022, Meloni ran on a strict anti-immigration and anti-LGBTQ+ platform. Under her leadership, the government has been considered the country's most right-wing since Benito Mussolini during World War II.
In September, the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, Rachele Mussolini, left the Brothers of Italy party because it was "too right-wing." A few months later, Meloni joined European far-right figures like French nationalist Éric Zemmour and Reform Party leader Nigel Farage at the inauguration of Donald Trump.
Our ad was all set to run tomorrow morning, with a signed contract and all. But at the last minute, Jeff Bezos's newspaper rejected our ad from running in its White House edition with no explanation, even though they have run similar ads complimenting Trump.You read that right. The Washington Post -- which has a responsibility to hold a magnifying glass up to powerful people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump -- refused to run our ad calling them out.
The Post -- whose tagline reminds us that "democracy dies in darkness" -- won't tell us their reasoning (believe us, we asked!) But when you look at our ad for yourself, I bet you'll put two and two together.
I am once again begging editors to stop illustrating articles about the wholesale destruction of Democracy with photos of Musk smirking and mugging like some white supremacist Urkel. That adorable little scamp.
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My app "is likely to become less discoverable" and "a warning is likely to be shown", you see.
This may be a Susan Collins level of "concerned". Someone let me know when they have escalated this to "deeply concerned".
The broken image for the XScreenSaver logo in the email is just *chef kiss*.
This is Bob Iger, who once wrote about the importance of moral leadership in his memoir. He might as well write a new book: "The Joy of Capitulation: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Boot."
Then there's Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, who once proudly declared he was gay and wanted to help others feel less alone. Tim Cook who championed privacy rights and claimed to stand for human dignity. Now he's letting his company resume advertising on X despite its owner's public embrace of Nazism while donating to Trump's inauguration faster than you can say "courage" -- his favorite word when removing headphone jacks, apparently less applicable when removing his backbone. [...]
This mass surrender is craven in every aspect. These aren't companies facing existential threats. They're not staring down bankruptcy. They're profitable giants choosing to fold because standing up might require effort or - God forbid - acknowledging that in a polarised world, their stock prices can never be entirely insulated from reality. They're abandoning commitments not because they must but because courage is less convenient than cowardice.
The most toxic element of this epidemic of spinelessness is its contagiousness. Each act of corporate surrender makes it harder for others to stand firm. Every time a Disney caves, a Meta crumbles, or a Target targets its own values for destruction, they're making it more difficult for any company to maintain principles under pressure. They're creating a race to the bottom where whoever abandons their values fastest wins.
"The part of the project run out of █████ went nuts with pre-compliance, "proactively" deleting all the online community LGBTQIA+ discussion groups, etc. Then they doubled down in some project town halls, clearly expressing zero tolerance for anything that pressures funding, and willingness to throw anybody under the bus when the purse strings are pulled, without pushing back, with absolutely no spine and free of ethical regret."
"Our project does appear to be, unbelievably, at real risk."
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Disney changed the wording in October 2020 to the longer content warning: "This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together. Disney is committed to creating stories with inspirational and aspirational themes that reflect the rich diversity of the human experience around the globe."
Now it has reverted the content warning back to a version of the one inserted in 2019: "This program is presented as originally created and may contain stereotypes or negative depictions."
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Trump and his fellow fascists use terms like DEI to describe anything they don't like, which means that the word "women" is on the forbidden list while "men" doesn't initiate a review. Straight white men are seen through the MAGA worldview as the default human and thus wouldn't be suspicious and in need of a review. Any other type of identity is inherently suspect. [...]
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